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Comment on Poorly Implemented Combo Box by Bry

Bry — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:15:59 +0000

Googled “manila zip codes”. First hit has ZIP codes per municipality, arranged by location alphabetically.

Wala lang… nakakabobo kasi pag-draft ng prototypes. Tinopak ako last week at linagay ko lahat ng country + country code sa mga country code dropdown list ng screens ko instead of just putting 5-10 country codes. Kaya yun, familiar yung pattern sa combo box sa pic sa taas.

Comment on Poorly Implemented Combo Box by Roy

Roy — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:52:22 +0000

Bakit alam mo ung alphabetical list of Quezon City locations :p

Comment on Poorly Implemented Combo Box by Bry

Bry — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:55:11 +0000

It’s actually displaying the ZIP codes of locations in Quezon City in alphabetical order. I think the dev forgot to put the location name somewhere there e.g.
Alicia (1105)
Amihan (1102)
Apolonio Samson (1106)
and so on…

I’m still wondering how 801 got there, though.

Comment on Barcamp Manila by Bry

Bry — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:54:32 +0000

Problem is, we’ve been making too much noise recently that it’s possible that people would dismiss this as yet another random rabble. XP We have to get the timing right… and possibly gather surveys or statistics or whatever first to drive points home.

(Posting about this stuff externally has a different impact - it hints that there’s already a small group of people initiating changes inside a company wherein changes were traditionally dictated only by the core group. Hehehe… )

Comment on Barcamp Manila by Roy

Roy — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:51:01 +0000

Bry: This is a very good thing to discuss, but we need to do it on the internal network, where we’re more likely to have an impact. Think about how to introduce the topic in Rushing Recklessly, I’ll surely reply.

Comment on Barcamp Manila by Bry

Bry — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:31:21 +0000

Uptake of new technology is pretty much limited by business considerations, but it’s still no excuse to limit expanding developers’ horizons. Unfortunately the current trend of us moving towards generalization of skills over specialization pretty much screws up the progress department - we end up with engineers who have a broad range of ~~outdated~~ unpolished skills than engineers with less, but more honed, skills.

Coding day-in-day-out also tends to give a false sense of “experience”. As I’ve said to Keis a couple of times already, “There’s a difference between 10 years of experience and 1 year of experience ten times over”. Even looking at my own code a year ago makes me facepalm at how little effort we spend in making sure that our “tools”/”saws” are sharp.

Comment on The Folly of Optical Media by Roy

Roy — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:43:42 +0000

I actually *do* have some episodes of Kenshin, but it’s not complete, and the discs are really old and I’m not sure where they are (daming rason :p)

Comment on A Week So Far With Vista by PCSecurityExpert

PCSecurityExpert — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:31:18 +0000

I think OEM vendors have some kind of agreement with McAfee and Norton which forces them to install these antiviruses - no matter how bad performing they are. If I’m more or less tolerant with McAfee, then Norton is a system killer. I’ve just come across a report where it’s said that Norton slows start-up by 50%. Awful! Avast antivirus is much less resource-hungry.

Comment on The Folly of Optical Media by noems

noems — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:39:59 +0000

how about donating some of your copies to kapal-muks leechers like me? depends ofcourse on what you have… kenshin would be nice since i haven’t seen it

Comment on Indiana Jones: “Raiders” vs “Crystal Skull” by Roy

Roy — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:39:26 +0000

Wow, you’re right. He gets such lame roles now. To think he used to be a ninja turtle.